WC: Read WC meta.component through a spread of a local meta object by huang-julien · Pull Request #36812 · storybookjs/storybook

huang-julien · 2026-10-15T11:36:55Z

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What I did

export default { ...meta } give no ArgTypes and no explanation.
Seen on during QA on adobe/spectrum-web-components gen2 Tabs, where the CLI doc tool listed stories but no API descirption.

The Web Components docgen resolver follows spreads of objects declared in the story file when reading meta.component, with later properties winning as in JS.
A spread it cannot follow produces an unresolvable-meta-spread error in the docgen payload, naming the spread and suggesting a literal component on the default export.

Example

const meta = { title: 'Tabs', component: 'swc-tabs' } satisfies Meta;
export default { ...meta, tags: ['autodocs'] };

Before: empty ArgTypes, no error in the components manifest.
After: ArgTypes and apiDescription from the swc-tabs declaration.

import { meta } from './tabs.meta.ts';
export default { ...meta };

Before: same silent empty result.
After: the docs page and the manifest show unresolvable-meta-spread: "meta.component could not be read because ...meta is not a local object literal. Set component: '<tag-name>' on the default export."

Manual test

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In a lit-vite sandbox with server docgen on, change a story file to const meta = { component: 'demo-button' }; export default { ...meta };.
Open its docs page: ArgTypes are filled.
Move meta to another file and import it: the components manifest entry and the docs page show the unresolvable-meta-spread error.

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Testing

The changes in this PR are covered in the following automated tests:

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Manual testing

Run a sandbox: yarn task --task sandbox --start-from auto --template lit-vite/default-ts.
In a story file, replace the default export with const meta = { title: 'Example/Button', component: 'demo-button' }; export default { ...meta, tags: ['autodocs'] };.
Open the component's docs page: the ArgTypes table is filled from the manifest, as it is with a literal component.
Move meta to a separate file and import it: the docs page and storybook-static/manifests/components.json (after storybook build with features.componentsManifest: true) show the unresolvable-meta-spread error naming ...meta.
Write export default { component: 'demo-button', ...imported }: the same error, because the later spread could override the tag.

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Add or update documentation reflecting your changes
If you are deprecating/removing a feature, make sure to update
MIGRATION.MD

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Confidence Score: 4/5

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Findings

Readable local components still fail ▶
Required example variants are missing ▶

Summary

Reads Web Components meta.component through local object spreads and adds an unresolvable-meta-spread error.

Web Components docs read component tags through local meta spreads.

Diagram

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
  A[Read story metadata] --> B[Resolve object members]
  B --> C{Component found?}
  C -->|Yes| D[Read tag and build documentation]
  C -->|No| E{Unreadable spread?}
  E -->|Yes| F[Return unresolvable-meta-spread]
  E -->|No| G[Skip component documentation]

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github-actions · 2026-10-15T11:37:25Z

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coderabbitai · 2026-10-15T11:42:22Z

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Component resolution now reads components from local object spreads in story meta objects. When a spread cannot be resolved, docgen payload construction reports a specific unresolvable-meta-spread failure.

Changes

Meta spread resolution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Resolve components from meta members `code/renderers/web-components/src/docgen/component-docgen/resolve-component/resolve-component.ts`, `code/renderers/web-components/src/docgen/component-docgen/resolve-component/resolve-component.test.ts`	`resolveStoryComponent` now reads members from the meta object, including local object spreads. Tests cover asserted objects, nested spreads, property precedence, non-tag components, unreadable spreads, and missing components.
Report unresolved spreads in docgen payloads `code/renderers/web-components/src/docgen/component-docgen/build-docgen.ts`, `code/renderers/web-components/src/docgen/component-docgen/build-docgen.test.ts`	`buildDocgenPayload` returns an `unresolvable-meta-spread` failure for an unresolved spread. A test covers an imported meta spread.

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Stories using a dynamic computed meta property can show documentation for the wrong component. The risk is narrow, but the resolver should honor the shadowed member before merge.

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- Around line 50-55: Update the member resolution used by `resolveObjectMembers`
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that later explicit writes determine; preserve `component: 'x-tabs'` through the
nested `meta` and outer spreads.
- Around line 56-58: Update the component-selection branch in resolve-component
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A literal component written after a spread the story file cannot read is certain at runtime, so the resolver now reads it even when it sits inside a local meta object that the default export spreads, including through nested local spreads. A literal component written before an unreadable spread is no longer accepted, because that spread may override it, and the resolver reports the spread as unresolvable-meta-spread instead.

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🟡 Minor · Honor shadowed in the final component fallback. · resolve-component.ts:71-88

code/renderers/web-components/src/docgen/component-docgen/resolve-component/resolve-component.ts:71-88
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Honor shadowed in the final component fallback.

A dynamic computed key is valid CSF input. resolveObjectMembers marks component as shadowed when that key follows the literal, but the final fallback ignores the mark and returns the earlier tag. Docgen can therefore use the wrong custom-element metadata.
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-  return component && tagFromNode(component);
+  return component && !members.shadowed.includes('component') ? tagFromNode(component) : undefined;
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`resolve-component.ts` in the web-components docgen conflicted. Upstream's storybookjs#36812 (julien/wc-readlocalmeta) changed it, in 92b8038 and d5e22c7, against the Babel-era file. This branch ports that file to ESTree. The conflict keeps the branch's file and ports Julien's behaviour onto it. `meta.component` is now read through spreads of object literals declared in the story file, also nested ones. A literal component written after a spread the file cannot read still wins. A spread that cannot be read, and may override the component, is reported as the new `unresolvable-meta-spread` reason. The Babel calls map to the ESTree helpers: - `{ program, filePath }` becomes `{ editor: csf._editor, filePath }` - `sourceOf(spread)` becomes `oneLineTextOf(spread)`, the text the ESTree `resolveObjectMembers` lists in `unresolved` - `scope.getBinding(name).path.node` becomes `editor.scopes.program.bindings.get(name).node` The other two docgen files the PR touched, `build-docgen.ts` and `build-docgen.test.ts`, merged cleanly. They use no Babel API. Julien's tests in `resolve-component.test.ts` and `build-docgen.test.ts` merged cleanly and pass unchanged, as does storybookjs#36806's `bind-args` change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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